[AZ-Observing] Re: Cherry Road observing and signs

Steve,
Please send the images again, they did not attach properly (wern't attached) to 
the message you sent me directly (off-list).
Thanks in advance
Stan Clark

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:03:02 -0700

>Stan;
>
>I am going to attach two images I took at Cherry Road to this message.  They 
>are of the signs at two sites there.  One is the SAC site and the other is 
>further down the road.  Because the system will not allow attachments to the 
>mailing list, please post these to the club site and let the SAC announce 
>mailing list know that they are posted.  I will tell them that you are doing 
>that so the interested club members can view the images.
>
>Thanks;
>Steve
>
>Author "Deep Sky Observing--The Astronomical Tourist"
>Saguaro Astronomy Club website
>www.saguaroastro.org
>

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Steve Coe" <stevecoe@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:20:31 -0700

>Howdy all;
>AJ and I traveled to Cherry Road last night and had a fun, but breezy time.  
>We observed some interesting objects in Cepheus and Cassiopeia at rather low 
>power seeing as how the seeing was at 5 out of 10.  The wind picked up about 
>10:30 and we packed up and returned to civilization.
>
>Before the sun set I took a couple of images of the signs that are at the 
>usual observing site and at another spot further on down the road.  I have 
>provided those to Stan Clark and he will post them to the SAC site in the next 
>day or so and everyone can have a look.  The two signs are quite different.  
>The sign posted further down the road has a US Forestry symbol and some more 
>official language than the sign at the usual Cherry SAC site.  
>
>I look forward to any answers that can be found about whether or not this site 
>is available to us in the future.  Not an opinion, please, but a bonofide 
>judgment by the person in charge of the Prescott National Forest.  If the sign 
>is a hoax planted by the Nazi Party section of the Treehuggers Club...then 
>let's remove it.  If it is official and we can get a ruling that might still 
>allow us to make use of the land, then let's move in that direction.  But, I 
>would feel very uneasy holding an official club star party at that location 
>until this is resolved.
>
>Regardless of the sign, AJ and I had a fun time and enjoyed the interesting 
>and always fascinating positions of stars in clusters.  From sparse little 
>clumps to giant balls of stars they come in all shapes and sizes.  We even saw 
>some colors in a few.
>
>Clear Skies to us all;
>Steve Coe
>
>Author "Deep Sky Observing--The Astronomical Tourist"
>Saguaro Astronomy Club website
>www.saguaroastro.org
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